Turkey retains five other mayors that ended the opposition

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The Turkish government has arrested five mayors and arrested in the popular President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the country’s best office, and arrested to dozens of other officials.

Police raid on Saturday and attacked three district mayors in Istanbul, as well as the Opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) former MP said. CHP Mayor in the southern province of Adana was taken into custody. Anatolia, a total of 30 people were seized, he said.

Erdogan, a “criminal organization” operation that accused Istanbul Municipality Mayor Akram Imamoglu, was accused of corruption and terrorism in March. Imamoglu rejects the allegations, Erdogan’s 22-year governance was “arms of the judicial system” to refuse difficulties.

Imamoglu’s arrest, protests against the greatest government, and made the supporters of the mayor and Erdogan accused authoritarianism. Opinion polls 53-year-old Imamoglu defeated Erdogan in a competition led by the presidency, managed the government’s leadership.

Investigators, the Central Bank, probably to continue the cost of about $ 50 billion, it is still up to date to the pounder trading below. The country’s benchmark stock index lost 17 percent due to Imamoglu’s arrest.

Mixed, consumer price inflation that works by 38 percent of the Central Bank, 46 percent of 46 percent forced 46 percent to raise 46 percent. The combination of high interest rates and inflation, the 1.3tth economy of Turkey, the information released on Friday, in the first quarter, the first quarter in the first quarter of the analysts was expanded in 2 percent in the first quarter.

Criticism of Turkey’s Western allies was mainly silent. However, Nacho Sánchez Amor visited the European Parliament on Turkey on Friday, Imamoglu. He sent a message in the X in the X, called Turkey to respect the rule of law and free Imamoglu.

Hundreds of Istanbul municipal officials and other CHP figures have been arrested in consistent operations since March. The government said the arrests were not politically motivated and no one was on the law.

CHP chair Ozgur ozel The party’s Istanbul deputies and the extraordinary session of local officials said to discuss how to respond to recent arrests.